White House Chronicle

In this episode, Chris Brown, president of Intelygenz, and a self-described geek, talks with Host Llewellyn King about his start on a Commodore 64 in the north of England, and his current work to bring U.S. companies along on a "journey of confidence" in AI.

The White House has seized control of the press pool from the White House Correspondents' Association. In this episode, Bob Deans, a journalist, author, and a former president of the association, describes the pool of reporters who cover the president that they are "proxies for those people across the country who care deeply about the presidency and will never have a chance to ask the pre...

Charles McMillan, who served as senior policy advisor to Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1983 to 1987, now a professor of business a York University in Toronto, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the impact of President Trump's rift with Canada.

Dr. Mitesh Rao, CEO and founder of OMNY Health, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the medical community's response to President Trump's drastic cuts on medical research at NIH, and their impact here and abroad.

Steven Hendrix, who was the highest-ranking USAID official at the State Department, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his work with USAID and how its loss will cost America.

Paul Lee, founder and CEO of Mind AI, based in Seoul, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his company's development of an AI technology that can explain its reasoning process. "We want everyone to trust AI technology more without worrying about hallucinations," he said.

Jeffrey Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg, discusses the new realities in journalism and their impact with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Lawrence Jones is a global man. He was born and raised in Liberia, attended college in Sweden, and has just been inducted into the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences. As the Edison Electric Institute's senior vice president of international programs, he runs an annual global electrification forum that crosses industry sectors, from AI to fashion to water."Electricity makes all these thi...

In the run-up to his presidential inauguration, Donald Trump has been showing his wild hand, from not ruling out military action to take Greenland and the Panama Canal to making Canada the 51st state to getting rid of windmills. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss how Trump's strategy is impacting the nation and the world.

Gregg Lord, who has been involved in emergency response and preparedness for 44 years, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the issues that have led to significant instability in the emergency medical service structure in America.

Llewellyn King, Adam Clayton Powell III, Linda Gasparello

Vilas Dhar, president and trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell II about the foundation's work and its global aspirations for AI.

David Derigiotis, an insurance expert and TED talker, is an AI enthusiast. But he is also a realist about the hurdles ahead for the development of this exciting technology. For example, backdoors and privacy. He talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Marvin Kalb, author, professor and a legend in broadcasting, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the early 1960s, when he was Moscow correspondent for CBS News, and the confrontation between Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, and President John F. Kennedy. It was "a different Russia," also the title of his new book, than the Putin-era one -- in which Putin,...

James Schaefer, senior managing director of Guggenheim Securities Investment Banking, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the role "new safer and more robust" nuclear technologies might play for baseload, low-carbon electricity and to help the United States retain it leadership in fission. He also discusses the need for natural gas in the nation's energy mix. 

Podcasts, social media, blogs, oh, my! These communications sources have been simmering in U.S. elections for years, but came to a boil in the 2024 elections. Geoffrey Cowan, director of USC's Annenberg 's Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, discusses the rise and impact of the new media with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Peter Morici thinks that AI gives Americans good reason to be optimistic. Morici, columnist, economist and emeritus business professor at the University of Maryland, looks at AI in an almost fatherly way. As AI grows up, there is going to be bad behavior, but we should watch for it not stifle the technology with regulation. It has the potential to do wonderful things, from finding us perfect match...

A cover story in The Economist shows why America is the envy of the world. Host Llewellyn King, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III and Producer Linda Gasparello discuss that enviable position as the election enters its final stretch.

John Kutsch, executive director of the Thorium Energy Alliance, believes fervently that "Thorium will power the world." In addition to its potential use as a fuel, it can also be used in medicine, alloys, coatings, and superconducting materials. He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Perry Carpenter is chief human risk management strategist at KnowBe4, and author of "FAIK: A Practical Guide to Living in a World of Deefakes, Disinformation, and AI-Generated Deceptions." He speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the mechanics behind deepfakes, disinformation, and other cognitive security threats, and how to survive in the ever more tangled digi...

The space economy is growing rapidly. Currently, 90 countries have earth-imaging satellites in orbit. Mark Brender, a former ABC journalist, now a consultant to the geospatial and satellite Earth observation industry, speaks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about how we are entering "an age of super-panoptical technocracy."

Not in my backyard (NIMBY) is a syndrome that has stymied the supply of homes, electricity, roads and other projects in the United States and abroad. Patrick Sleven's insights on NIMBYism come from his experience as mayor of Safety Harbor, a city on the west shore of Tampa Bay in Florida. He discusses ways to overcome NIMBYism with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III.

Adam Russell, head of AI research at USC's Information Sciences Institute, has an engrossing discussion with Adam Clayton Powell III, who guest hosts the episode, about the development of AI -- and what Russell terms "AI Now, AI Next, AI in the Wild." 

Dana Milbank, a Washington Post opinion columnist, knows there is humor in truth. He has written a hilarious and truthful book on the dysfunctional state of the current Republican House, "Fools on the Hill: The Hooligans, Saboteurs, Conspiracy Theorists, and Dunces Who Burned Down the House." Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III had the fun of talking, as Lewis Carroll...

Puerto Rico is vulnerable to devastating hurricanes, as is much of the Caribbean Basin. Adam Rousselle, CEO of the Caribbean Basin Power Authority, talks to Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about his proposed undersea cable which would bring reliable and resilient electricity to Puerto Rico, and eventually to other locations in the Caribbean Basin.